La Cage Aux Folles appropriate for....

[Citygirl.grace]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 2:16pm

I have a 16 year old daughter, who is VERY into theater. Right now she is really into the La Cage Aux Folles soundtrack, and I want to take her to see it. Would you say it is appropriate for a 16 year old? I don't like her exposed to inapropriate things, but she is also very mature. Can someone just like give me a rundown of the show and what might be "Suggestive" or anything? thanks so much! I would appreciate it!

[wendilin622]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 2:20pm

Very appropriate for a 16 year old. The show is essentially just about love and family. There are some sexual innuendo jokes but thats the extent of it. I'd guess it was at a PG-13. Its a wonderful show. Enjoy!

[matty159]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 2:28pm

Totally appropriate...for the reasons listed above by wendilin. Buy those tickets and get thee to the Longacre toot sweet!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 2:40pm

I brought my almost-10 and 13 year old. Not inappropriate at all.

However, everyone has their own ideas of "inappropriate".

[CONAries]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 2:40pm

There are alot of sexual innuendos, but they are the sort where you will only understand the joke if you are aware of its meaning anyway!

[Citygirl.grace]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 2:46pm

could you like tell me what you think was so inappropriate about it? if you could be detailed that would be great! i need all the info i can get! :) thanks

Posted: 8/13/10 at 3:06pm

Unless you are referring to a Candy Whistle the phrase is Tout de Suite- French for "Right away."

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 3:11pm

NO ONE said it was inappropriate at all.

It might be easier if YOU tell us, what you consider inappropriate.

[philitalia]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 3:12pm

Citygirl are you worried for your daughter or yourself ?
There is nothing inappropriate about La Cage. The innuendo is harmless and quite lame compared to the language teenagers use these days.

It is just great fun.

Updated On: 8/13/10 at 03:12 PM

[Citygirl.grace]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 4:27pm

Okay thanks guys :). To be more specific, I would just say that to much bad language, (we saw Billy Elliot and i didn't really like the language but me and my daughter very much loved it and would see it again in a heartbeat, so I guess just compare the language to Billy Elliot) one also to many sexual comments, and also we saw a show a while back that made like many "Sexual Gestures" and "thrusting" (get what i mean?) and stuff that made me cringe a little bit with my daugter siting next to me. So I guess that like too many of these kinda things is what I'm worried about...

[philitalia]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 4:32pm

No need to worry. As someone wrote a bit earlier it's a show about love and family. There's innuendo, but no swearing (as far as I can remember). Very warm-hearted show.

[wendilin622]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 4:36pm

There are some sexual innuendo jokes, but none that were really "cringe worthy". I saw the show with my mom (granted, I'm 24) and neither of us batted an eyelash at anything. I can't remember any "thrusting"....
And I think the language in BE was way worse than La Cage.

[shrekster224]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 4:42pm

La Cage is really worth seeing. I agree with what everyone said. Its a fun show thats more about family than anything innapropriate.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 5:38pm

I'm going to go on a limb here:

Will a gay couple, many gay men and cross dressing make you uncomfortable?

[Citygirl.grace]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 7:05pm

haha! No, not at all!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 7:24pm

Good! Then go and enjoy.

At the root its really about family, love and knowing who you are. Many lovely performances.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 11:22pm

I am very confused. You really don't want your 16 year old daughter see a show with foul language in it? She's 16. She probably hears a lot more than curse words. Hell. I watched a lady giving birth in a bathtub in 8th grade health.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 11:28pm

Just because she may have heard "worse" doesn't mean a family is comfortable with it. Some families actually thing its just WRONG to use that kind of language -- regardless of age and would rather not subject themselves to hearing it if they can help it.

What does watching a birth have to do with foul language? Are you suggesting that the birth of a child is OFFENSIVE? I fail to see how one thing has anything to do with the other.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 11:32pm

Sorry. The way I meant it was like I'm pretty sure seeing a fully naked woman giving birth (not saying it isn't a beautiful thing, which it definitely is.) in 8th grade when some kids are 13, is probably a lot worse visually than hearing people cursing.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 8/13/10 at 11:50pm

La Cage is totally appropriate for a 16-year-old, and it's a great family show...at its core it's really about love and family, and I think it's a great message for someone of any age. I say go and enjoy! :)

[Citygirl.grace]

Posted: 8/14/10 at 1:53am

Sorry, I just don't like cursing and would rather not be exposed to it when I don't have too.. But thanks for the input everyone! We are most deffinantly going to go see it!

[quizking101]

Posted: 8/14/10 at 11:28am

Granted it's not G-rated, but it appropriate enough for a whole family to enjoy. Yes, there is plenty of innuendo and tongue-in-cheek jokes, but the result is hilarity and nothing is vulgar at all.

I only remember one obscenity, and that's at the end when Albin "slips" and "accidently" calls somebody a starf***er (but immediately switches to star-follower)

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/14/10 at 11:46am

Giving birth is a natural and life changing thing.

Swearing is simply vulgar.

How can one be "worse" than the other when they have nothing in common?

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/14/10 at 12:58pm

Well, from what I have seen, there can be a lot of swearing during child birth.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 8/14/10 at 1:20pm

dramamama, a child's birth may be beautiful, but that is not the reason they show it in health class. It is also not the reason that my sister's health teacher played with the remote to make the baby go back in and out, over and over.